{"id":3678,"date":"2011-09-29T05:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2011-09-29T05:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:29:05","slug":"current-affairs-india-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Union Cabinet <\/span>has cleared a  massive hike of Rs 3 crore per MP in the annual allocation of MPLAD fund  that enables every MP to recommend development works in his\/her  constituency. The allocation has been hiked from Rs 2 crore per MP to Rs  5 crore per MP and will cost the exchequer an additional Rs 2,370 crore  annually.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hyderabad<\/span> will host the Table Tennis World Championship, 2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">India has<\/span> slipped from being the  8th largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2009 to the  14th largest in 2010, according to the World Investment Report, 2011,  brought out by UNCTAD.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gorkhas get more autonomy in Bengal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ending two decades of uncertainty in the Darjeeling hills, a  historic tripartite agreement for a new council with more powers was  signed on July 18, 2011, even as the West Bengal government ruled out  any division of the State.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)  was signed in the presence of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Chief  Minister Mamata Banerjee and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha President Bimal  Gurung. The CPI(M) and other Left parties boycotted the function. A  48-hour bandh was observed in the adjoining Terai and Dooars in the  plains against the signing.<\/p>\n<p>The new autonomous, 50-member elected hill council will have  more administrative and financial powers to independently run the three  hill sub-divisions of Kurseong, Kalimpong and Darjeeling, as compared to  its former avatar, the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, formed in the  late 1980s. While 45 members will be elected, the remaining five will be  nominated by the government. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet has cleared a massive hike of Rs 3 crore per MP in the annual allocation of MPLAD fund that enables every MP to recommend development works in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3678\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[207,462,1041,5350],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-current-affairs","tag-current-affairs-india","tag-currentaffairs","tag-gorkhas-get-more-autonomy-in-bengal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}